Gloria Biggs
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Conference proposal about Gloria Biggs
Today I am working on an abstract about Gloria Biggs – Florida women’s page editor turned publisher. It is called: “I Weep When I Read the Lines About Not Being the Feminist”: Gloria Biggs’ Transition From Women’s Page Editor to Publisher I am sending it off to a state history conference that will be held next Spring in Jacksonville, Florida – a new city for us to visit. And, best of all, there is a jazz festival in Jacksonville the same weekend. My research on Gloria comes from her papers in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. I also interviewed her niece a few years ago.
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Two Years in Orlando
Today, Lance and I have been in Orlando for two years. In that time, we have gone through the papers of several Florida women’s page journalists, including Helen Muir at the University of Miami and Eleanor Hart at the South Florida History Museum. We also went through some of the Poynter papers at the University of South Florida. I have presented papers at the Florida Conference of Historians about Florida women’s page editors Anne Rowe Goldman and Edee Greene. The next Florida women I plan to investigate are Gloria Biggs and Janet Chusmir. There is such a rich history of Florida women journalists and so much has not been researched.
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Writing about Gloria Biggs
Today I am writing about Gloria Biggs who went from St. Petersburg Times women’s page editor to the first female publisher in the Gannett chain. I am focusing on her conflicted feelings about feminism which I discovered in her papers in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. On one side were there letters in which she embraced women’s liberation. Biggs responds to a congratulatory letter from the coordinator of the Brevard County Library System: “I was delighted with your “women’s lib” list of books.” Biggs responded to a letter from the women’s editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer:I put in a very special category the words you…
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Writing about Gloria Biggs
Today I am writing about Gloria Biggs who went from St. Petersburg Times women’s page editor to the first female publisher in the Gannett chain. I am focusing on her conflicted feelings about feminism which I discovered in her papers in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. On one side were there letters in which she embraced women’s liberation. Biggs responds to a congratulatory letter from the coordinator of the Brevard County Library System: “I was delighted with your “women’s lib” list of books.” Biggs responded to a letter from the women’s editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer:I put in a very special category the words you…
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Nelson Poynter papers
Yesterday, Lance and I went to USF in St. Pete. We spent the morning going through the papers of Nelson Poynter and Henrietta Poynter. (They were owners of the St. Pete Times during the best years for women’s pages – the 1960s.) Here is Henrietta’s obituary. There were a few references to top women’s page editors Gloria Biggs and Anne Rowe. There was no record of the numerous Penney-Missouri Awards that the women’s section earned. I am continuing to collect information on the women’s section of the St. Pete Times.
- Allen Nueharth, Florida Women's Pages, Gloria Biggs, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson
Marie Anderson & Al Neuharth
Gannett newspaper executive Allen Neuharth was a big champion for women journalists and later promoted women’s page editors Gloria Biggs and Marjorie Paxson to publishers. This letter is from Neuharth to Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. It can be found in her papers at the WHMC. I have published articles about Marjorie and Marie.
